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From left to right: Ann Kerr ("Angus Ann") and Allison Silibovsky ("Allie Dog") stand in front of the Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile in Tucson, Ariz. on Friday, Nov. 17. The iconic vehicle has been a part of the brand since the 1930s.

Relishing their jobs: Meet the wonder women of the Weinermobile

Oscar-Meyer “hotdoggers” spend a full year driving the iconic hot dog across the country.
The view on Canyon De Flores Dr. behind Castle and Cooke Arizona's Holiday development. The Buffalo Soldier Ranch housing development will be located to the east, behind the Holiday development. Two access points for the Buffalo Soldier Ranch development will be on Canyon De Flores Dr. November 21, 2023.

Sierra Vista City Council approves final plat plan for Buffalo Soldier Ranch housing development

The new development will span about 111 acres and house a maximum of 349 homes
A local advocacy group, No Jail Deaths, continues a public meeting after the Pima County Adult Detention Center Blue Ribbon Commission decided to end the meeting due to disruption from the protestors on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 at the Pima County Historic Courthouse.

Activist groups protest new jail ahead of findings report

Members of No Jail Deaths, Community Care Tucson, and Community on Wheels spoke out against a potential new jail at the Pima County Board of Supervisors this week.
Ballots from the general election are boxed up at the Maricopa County Recorders Office in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.

Arizona county again rejects a bid to hand-count all 2024 ballots

The 3-2 vote on Monday by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors against the proposal.
University of Arizona College of Education senior Sophie Chapman reads a list of demands to Dean Robert Q. Berry, III on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. The demands include reinstating two professors who were placed on suspension are audio recordings of their classroom lecture was shared on social media

Sit-in at UA's College of Education calls to reinstate professors

Around 60 staff, faculty, students and community members participated.

40 years of Gould’s turkey restoration success in the Sky Islands

From local extinction to Thanksgiving triumph, the journey of North America’s largest wild turkey species in Arizona’s southeastern mountains
F-16 from the 162nd Fighter Wing, based in Tucson.

How Arizona’s economic engines are rumbling towards Ukraine

Inside the lofty plans of an economic coalition trying to make Arizona integral to Ukraine’s recovery.
Lockers at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office contain belongings recovered alongside migrants who died in the desert. Death investigators use the items to help determine the person’s identity, and return their remains to family.

New report finds Pima County Sheriff’s Department has history of not responding to calls from lost migrants

Advocacy group No More Deaths found that the sheriff’s department handled distress calls based on perceived immigration status. Sheriff Nanos disputes the findings, says whether calls are transferred to Border Patrol is based purely on proximity.
OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule after touchdown in Utah September 24.

UA students share in OSIRIS-REx success

They are taking a role developing experiments on the sample brought back from Bennu.
This June 7, 2023, photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a female Mexican gray wolf before she is released back into the wilds of Apache National Forest in eastern Arizona. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the wolf had been found wandering in New Mexico outside a zone created for the recovery of her subspecies.

US wildlife managers have no immediate plans to capture wandering Mexican gray wolf

Her paws have seen hundreds of miles now over the last five months.
Students walk near the fountain at Old Main on the University of Arizona campus. From August 2019.

UA suspends two professors following Israel-Hamas lecture

The College of Education professors have been suspended until an investigation concludes.
John Kmiec, director of Tucson Water at the Sweetwater Wetlands Park in Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Kmiec says that the water that flows through the wetlands is highly treated water from the Pima County Agua Nueva facility that gos into the aquifer for future generations.

Tucson Water receives federal funding to combat PFAS, construct new water treatment facility

$30 million awarded through EPA from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Treated wastewater, like this sample in Carson, California, could soon become a bigger part of the West's water portfolio. Cities in the drought-stricken Colorado River basin are putting big money behind project

ADEQ unveils Advanced Water Purification Program

The program looks to reuse wastewater into a purified water source
The Arizona State Museum on the western mall of the University of Arizona campus.

The Buzz: Why a 32-year-old federal law has failed to bring Native American remains home

A federal law was supposed to ensure returns of most remains by 1995. So why are thousands of Arizona tribal remains still not back with their people?
Protests from the United Campus Workers of Arizona and the Arizona Students' Association move from Old Main to the North Ballroom just before the Arizona Board of Regents begin the public portion of their November meeting on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

Protests fill ABOR meeting following UA's financial crisis

University of Arizona President Robert Robbins delivered his State of the University and the board of regents approved a new tuition model.
A group hangs out in the shade in Santa Rita Park in Tucson.

The Buzz: Does Housing First Work?

Housing First was a topic of debate in recent Tucson city elections, so we ask experts about the evidence.

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